Meeting Schedule Assistant

Regular Report

Export Settings

To display this dialogue go to the File menu
of a regular Report Editor and click on
Export Settings (not to be confused with the
Duty Slips Settings.)

The export settings dialogue offers a variety
of options to allow you to customize how reports are exported as
HTML. This gives you more control over how the
reports are created. The dialogue is in four main sections, each of
which is described in detail below. To the right is a
preview area where you will get an idea of what
your exported report will look like. As you make changes to the
settings the preview is updated immediately. You can also preview
what the printed report would look like and print
it from here.

Use the
dropdown list to select which font you would like to change. Then
click the Select Font button to display a font
dialogue box where you can select a different font or modify the
current font style and colour
properties.

Table
Properties There are three settings that
affect how the table is displayed.

Cell Padding refers to the gap between each
cell in the table.

Cell Spacing refers to the gap between the text
in the cell and the edge of the cell (think of cell spacing as a
kind of margin area around the text). This will also apply to
the grid lines. So you can create a kind of double-line style
effect.

Table Width can be set to one of two
options. Literal lets the system decide how wide
each column width should be. Literal will generally avoid
word-wrapping if it can. Percent will cause the
table to be 100% wide and all the columns would be proportionally
adjusted to fill this space.

Click the
Columns button to adjust the column order on the exported document.
You can also specify columns that you don't want printed or
exported. Click on the link for full details.

Date Text
Case You can change the way the dates are displayed on
the reports. There are four choices to choose from:

Default Dates are displayed using the
operating systems default settings.

Title Case Dates are displayed with the
first letter of each word is capitalized.

lowercase Dates are displayed in
lowercase.

UPPERCASE Dates are displayed in
uppercase.

Separate Months causes the schedule to include a small gap
between each calendar month. Options are provided for you to
specify the colour of this gap.

Repeat Column Headings will cause
the column headings to be repeated at the start of each
month.

Stylesheet This feature is a work in
progress and is provided for advanced
customization. Certain aspects of the report now have
classes assigned. Using a Cascade Style Sheet you
can alter the look and feel of these classes. At the moment only
certain parts of the report support this feature. Please let me
know if there are other parts of the report you would like exposed
with a class.

Since there are so many enhancements that you can make for
exporting to HTML we thought it a good idea to include a
HTML Print Preview button to the dialogue. From
the Print Preview, you can alter the page setup,
margins, header, footer and printer details. Of course you can also
print! It saves you having to open up the HTML file in Internet
Explorer or Word to print it. Note that this is an Internet
Explorer Print Preview and any changes you make to page
setup etc. will also be applicable to Internet Explorer and not
just Meeting Schedule Assistant.

Note: You can also display the print preview directly from the
Report Editor.